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Lucent Technologies, Inc. & Pmc-sierra, Inc.

Intel Corporation

Jeff Fedders

Matthew James Adiletta

Michael Kauschke

Winston K Mok

Jean-Michel Caia

Miriam Qunell

Stephen R Peck

Kevin Bradley Citterelle

Douglas Carrigan

Michael Ho

Floyd Craig Wolverton

Jason Garratt

Ernest Kaempfer

Techniques for transmitting SONET/SDH traffic over an Advanced Switching compatible switch fabric. In one implementation, SONET/SDH traffic may be aggregated and encapsulated into Advanced Switching compatible packets. In one implementation, the contents of the Advanced Switching compatible packets may be configurable and directions on how to unpack the Advanced Switching compatible packets may be transmitted to end point nodes. In one implementation, SONET/SDH pointer justification generation may be divided between a source node which transmits SONET/SDH traffic to the switch fabric and an end point node which receives SONET/SDH traffic from the switch fabric.

Techniques for transmitting and receiving traffic over advanced switching compatible switch fabrics

The system for broadband data payload conversion functions to efficiently convert broadband data between two sets of data formats. In particular, this software system converts between AUG/AU3/VC3 clear channel payloads and AU4/VC4/TU3/VC3 clear channel payloads in an efficient manner, which also complies with the industry standard data formatting requirements. The present system implements an efficient data format conversion process that uses existing circuitry and can effect the data format conversion with only a few bytes of delay instead of an entire frame of delay as is typically found in existing systems. This is accomplished by manipulating the format conversion to simplify the format conversion process.

System for efficient broadband data payload conversion

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Westminster, CO, United States of America

Jeff Fedders